Harrington on Cash Games Vol. I & II - Pre-order
Price seems steep at $34.95 each. Hopefully it will appear on Poker Bay at some point.
Product Description
The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games.
In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the pot grows. After laying out the general concepts behind deep-stack cash game play, Harrington shows you a complete strategy for post-flop play, and then teaches you the difference between post-flop play against a single opponent and post-flop play against multiple opponents. If you play no-limit hold em cash games, you need to read this book.
Harrington on Cash Games: Volume II continues where Volume I left off. In sections on turn and river play, Harrington explains why these are the most important streets in no-limit hold em, and shows how to decide when to bet or check, when to call or fold, and when to commit all your chips. In later sections, Harrington shows how to play a looser and more aggressive style, how to make the transition from online to live games, and how to extract the maximum profit from very low-stakes games. Volume II concludes with an interview with Bobby Hoff, considered by many the best no-limit cash game player of all times, who shares some of his secrets and insights.
http://www.amazon.com/Play-No-Limit-Hold-Games-Harrington/dp/1880685426/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203015136&sr=8-2
Product Description
The first years of the poker boom were fueled by the interest in no-limit hold em tournaments. Recently, however, players have been gravitating to another, even more complex form of hold em no-limit cash games.
In Harrington on Cash Games: Volume I, Dan Harrington teaches you the key concepts that drive deep-stack cash game play. You ll learn how to tailor your selection of starting hands to your stack size, how to recognize the increasing deception value of supposedly weaker hands as the stack sizes increase, and how to use the concept of pot commitment to your advantage as the size of the pot grows. After laying out the general concepts behind deep-stack cash game play, Harrington shows you a complete strategy for post-flop play, and then teaches you the difference between post-flop play against a single opponent and post-flop play against multiple opponents. If you play no-limit hold em cash games, you need to read this book.
Harrington on Cash Games: Volume II continues where Volume I left off. In sections on turn and river play, Harrington explains why these are the most important streets in no-limit hold em, and shows how to decide when to bet or check, when to call or fold, and when to commit all your chips. In later sections, Harrington shows how to play a looser and more aggressive style, how to make the transition from online to live games, and how to extract the maximum profit from very low-stakes games. Volume II concludes with an interview with Bobby Hoff, considered by many the best no-limit cash game player of all times, who shares some of his secrets and insights.
http://www.amazon.com/Play-No-Limit-Hold-Games-Harrington/dp/1880685426/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203015136&sr=8-2
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Here you go
http://www.amazon.ca/Harrington-Cash-Games-Play-No-Limit/dp/1880685426/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=1203016812&sr=8-17
Mark
i enjoy harrington's tournment book so much.
all i can so, i learn so much, before reading the 3 harrington, i didn't know sh*t about poker.
You all realize Harrington doesn't play cash games anymore, right. I thought it was funny when he stated on some pokercast that he doesn't play cash games and just wants to sell the books to make$$$. At least he's an honest guy.
Smart marketing on his part for sure.
All books have flaws, ie they may not match your particular play but even getting one new thought out of each one is worth it.
I'm a little more than 1/2 way through V1, and i'm liking it.
Mark
1/2 way through vol 1 and I agree. Too passive, doesn't understand online games, no or very little short handed stuff, uses HSP examples. I don't know if i can get through all of it.
still, i doubt most players will 'get' the material. for the most part, it is not a beginner book. it assumes the reader already has decent experience at nl. and most readers don't. so don't buy it. or do but don't expect it to make you a winning 10/20 player overnight.
harrington and his researchers, did, in fact play a lot of online cash games at various stakes as research for the book. i don't think he plays cash now but he did in the past. yes the games have changed...
there is nothing there for 6max.
you will be surprised at how 'loose' some of his preferred moves seem to be if you expect him to sound like he did in his tourney books.
it is quite humourous how he critiques the play of some of the HSP folks.
i will read these books again soon. i'm sure i will pick up some stuff i missed.
Have you read Angel Largay's cash game book? Strictly for low limits NL. For $22, probably worth a look.
they are all good. you get your 24.95 worth out of each of them if you are playing anything other than .01/.02. even then...
i would love action dan's autograph on one of those green hats (hint, hint)
I just finished book 1 and I am on book 2 now. I also just picked up Gus' new book as well. Gave that one to my parents to read so they can understand poker is a little bit more than luck.
And for those of you who think Harrington is too tight how about the hand where 53o on the button calls a UTG 3x raise (which happens to be AA)?
I guess we all want to be LAG because that's where the fun and the action is. And then we heard that if you play LAG you need play smart otherwise you will just piss away your chips. Well, I'm gradually moving from my previous TAG to a new LAG type of game and I find it a bit hard.
The key to my TAG game was being "selective" aggressive. Well Harrington's books are pointing me to be "selective" loose. The part I am concentrating on is the selective part because that is the hardest.
And actually, these cash game books have been helping my early MTT play when stacks are deep.
QFT
Mark
Mark only please...
I'm folding them face up from now on. I only limp with KK. You should know that by now. 65s maybe but never 56s. It does make a difference you know.